Shankar Mahadevan: I keep poking my nose in other genres of music

Shankar Mahadevan

Shankar Mahadevan

Shankar Mahadevan says though he is flooded with requests to perform hit Bollywood numbers on stage, he remains a classically-rooted musician. "I can't escape crooning the Mitwa number wherever I perform, but basically I am a classically-rooted musician," Mahadevan said at an event in Kolkata yesterday. His roots in music lie in Karnataka classical gharana.

"Despite being a classical musician, I keep poking my nose in other genres of music. And this is not bad. I have completed 21 years of composing music in Indian films," the singer, part of the famous Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy team, said. In the session, called Baithak to Bollywood, he dwelt on his journey in the world of music for two decades and his association with A R Rahman.

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